What is 2.40672 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.40672 as a fraction equals 240672/100000 or 7521/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.40672 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.40672 as  

Step 2:

Next, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by 10 for each digit after the decimal point. Remember the numerator is the top part of the fraction and the denominator is the bottom part!

2.40672/1

  =  

2.40672 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

240672/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 240672 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 240672 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  23  24  32  46  48  69  92  96  109  138  184  218  276  327  368  436  552  654  736  872  1104  1308  1744  2208  2507  2616  3488  5014  5232  7521  10028  10464  15042  20056  30084  40112  60168  80224  120336  240672 
The factors of 100000 are: 1  2  4  5  8  10  16  20  25  32  40  50  80  100  125  160  200  250  400  500  625  800  1000  1250  2000  2500  3125  4000  5000  6250  10000  12500  20000  25000  50000  100000 
So for 240672 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

Step 4:

For the last step we reduce the fraction. This just means writing the fraction in the simplest way. To do this we divide both the numerator and denominator by the GCF value we determined in step 3.

240672/100000

  =  

240672 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7521/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.40672 as a fraction.